East Shefford, Berkshire

Description
Shefford, East or Little, a parish in Berks, on the north-eastern bank of the river Lambourn, 5 miles N of Kintbury station on the G.W.R., and 5 1/2 NE of Hungerford. Post town and money order office, Great Shefford, under Lambourn; telegraph office, Lambourn. Acreage, 1096; population, 91. The manor belonged to the Basils, and passed by marriage to the Fettyplaces. The manor house, which formerly stood here, was very ancient and moated, showing interesting features of timber-work, windows, and gables. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £273 with residence. The church, erected in 1868-70, is a building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, W porch, and a western bell turret. The old church, which is now only used as a mortuary chapel, is a small building in the Late Perpendicular style, and was erected in the reign of Henry VIII. It contains a, fine monument of Sir Thomas Fettyplace and his wife, with alabaster effigies, and a tomb in grey marble, with brass effigies, of John Fettyplace (1524) and his wife and children.